Tenuicorbula melajoensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Corbula (Tenuicorbula)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula (Tenuicorbula)
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbula (Tenuicorbula)
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbula (Tenuicorbula)
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 8.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 5 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPliocene12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12.1 Mya3.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Tenuicorbula melajoensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

6 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Springvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°W

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The named rock units Tenuicorbula melajoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tenuicorbula melajoensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tenuicorbula melajoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tenuicorbula melajoensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Tenuicorbula melajoensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tenuicorbula melajoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCorbula (Tenuicorbula) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jung 1969)